Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Hold with nine years of experience

with nine years of experience with the Cobourg Heavy Battery (five years as a non-commissioned officer)

and is constructed of nickle plated steel blade

named to Otto Keil as a Stabsbootsmann

light flaking in the enamels on the bottom arm of the reverse

Allan Maclean Howard

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Hold with nine years of experience(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 45 mm (w) x 48. 15 mm (h), weighing 13. 8 grams, accompanied by its period original